Ayin עין

Occurrences

44,811

Per 1,000 letters

37.44

Rank of 22

13

Share of the Tanakh

3.74%

Across the books of the Tanakh

Per 1,000 letters of each book, so a long book and a short one compare honestly. Tap a bar — or drag along the chart — and that book stands in the panel, with its door. The filled dot marks the highest column, the hollow ring the lowest.

The Twelve is one of the twenty-four books, and every total on this site still counts it as one. On this axis its twelve prophets stand as their own columns, because Hosea is eight times the length of Obadiah and one column for both hides what each of them does.

Across the fifty-four portions

The Torah alone, portion by portion, on the same measure. Fifty-four names will not fit along one axis, so most of them are not printed — but every column names itself the moment you touch it.

Where it runs hardest and thinnest

A place is listed when Ayin runs at least 1.25× its Tanakh-wide rate of 37.44 per 1,000, or at most 0.80× it. Two thresholds, applied to every letter alike — nothing here is picked by hand.

The gematria of the letter

Milui values a letter at the standard gematria of its own name spelled in full: עין = 130. Computed at render by the same engine that runs every search — nothing on this page is a stored number except the counts.

Letters written apart

The Masoretic text writes eleven letters larger, smaller or raised above the line. Each word below is set the way the text sets it — the letter itself in its own state, inside its own word. Our corpus records the form and the place; it records no comment on them, so none is printed here.

• LargeDeuteronomy 6:4שמע
• SuspendedPsalms 80:14מיער
• SuspendedJob 38:13רשעים
• SuspendedJob 38:15מרשעים

First standing

The first Ayin of the Tanakh, in canonical order from Bereshit 1:1 forward, is in על — Genesis 1:2, the 6th word of the verse.